In the early months of 1920 the Worcester team played sixteen games,
winning from all New England opponents and losing only to two New York
teams. The reputation thereby established made schedule building for
the following year a problem of selection. The 1921 list included
Dartmouth, Amherst, St. Lawrence, two games with Harvard, and one with
McGill that had to be cancelled on short notice. Of the eighteen games
played, Worcester lost only three, Crescent A.C., Stevens, and
Dartmouth. Attendance at nearly every game exceeded 1,000; at the
Harvard and Dartmouth games nearly twice that number were packed into
the gymnasium. Financial results were equally satisfying, a net gain
of $2,100 for the season.

The enthusiasm and elaborate organization of the endowment campaign
gave the alumni a new sense of their responsibility and a vigorous
interest in college activities. The 1919 alumni-faculty-trustee
conference, and subsequent business meetings in New York, developed
numerous subjects of discussion, and led to a similar two-day meeting
at Worcester in February, 1921. In addition to debating the merits of
business courses and the conferring of honorary degrees, this group
examined possibilities of creating an Alumni Council, and appointed a
committee to study the requirements of the position of a full-time
alumni secretary. The erection of a suitable war memorial was also
discussed. New York representatives proposed a memorial dormitory or
the endowment of memorial scholarships. A memorial hall, or
auditorium, was among the more ambitious suggestions.

Colonel Butterfield, though absent from the campus, had continued to
give part of his time to the Alumni Office, but his resignation from
the position of alumni secretary, effective in June, 1921, created a
difficult problem. The report at the 1921 annual meeting pointed out
the desirability of appointing a full-time secretary, whose work would
include management of the journal, collection of funds, and an
employment service, but because Colonel Butterfield, the only person
who seemed